Ask the Doctor

From Trish:- After reading about what you told Don with only one cut, I started thinking about my husbands vasectomy. He only had one, then soon after he got a really bad staph infection making him stay in the hospital for days. After the swelling went down (they looked like baseballs, very large) he went [...]

From Cathy:- I am a 41 year old woman and have never had children, I have not had any problems with periods etc and have always been regular. My partner is 52 has 4 older children and had a vasectomy approximately 12 yers ago. I would still desperately like to try for a child and [...]

From Ethan:- I am writing to get your insights about the average recovery time, including general tenderness, of no-scalpel vasectomies. There is a lot of mixed feedback, not to mention a lot of misinformation, in what is found online. The general stories regarding men’s vasectomies seems to be polarized between feeling “good as new” in [...]

From Lacey:- My husband went in for his first SA since his vasectomy reversal. His VV was done June 13th. His results were as follows: Volume: 9mL Liquification time: 10 min Color: white Viscosity: normal Turbidity: translucent Concentration: 1.25 10^6mL(Count 1:2 + 2:3) / 4 Agglutination: absent Motility: 37% Rapid 6% Slow 12% Twitching 45% [...]

From Raven:- My husband had his consultation with an urologist today (about getting a vasectomy), and he was told that his ball-sack is too THICK to have success with the procedure. Apparently the doctor could not feel the cords/tubes through the sack. He was then told because he had sleep apnea, that a general anesthetic [...]

From Bill:- I recently had a vasectomy reversal, epididymovasostomy. Four weeks after the reversal I ejaculated for the first time and once everyday consecutively for five days. The fifth day there was some blood present in the semen. My question is, is it normal to see blood after the fifth ejaculation and not the first [...]

From Berenice:- Good evening. I am a 43 year old woman who had a baby two years ago. My husband and I decided to go for a vasectomy and he tested negative for sperm on his follow-up visit. I am about a week late, and two pregnancy tests done, one two days ago and another [...]

From Scott:- I looked though the archives and didn’t see specifically a case like mine. I had a vasectomy about 3 yrs ago. After 3 months I submitted a sample to be tested and it came back positive, I wasn’t given numbers and was told to wait another 3 months and resubmit another sample. This [...]

From Courtney:- Thank you for taking the time to answer questions, you are very generous. My husband had his reversal done in November of 2007 (original vasectomy was done 11 years ago). He is 37 and I am 31, he has 2 children and I don’t have any. We just received the semen analysis and [...]

From Christy:- Hi and thank you for answering my question. Well the dr told me at out 8/21 visit that even if my husband had 100 million sperm with over 50% motility it they would not be good enough to penetrate the egg and so I would still need IVF. That is a lie so [...]